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I have searched the reason for this and the points I've come across are;
Trapped air in sand bed. Yes months ago I did introduce the sand into a filled tank but why would it take so long for the air to escape.
Nitrogen gas escaping due to the BB doing their job on nitrates in the tank. Maybe, my nitrate readings have been 0ppm (liquid API test kit), for a long period of time. Check yesterday and no nitrates present according to my test tube.
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2. Don't stir the sand, let the bubbles release on their own.
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Canada's ambassador to Afghanistan has offered to resign his post ahead of potentially damaging revelations in an upcoming WikiLeaks release, Canada's The Globe and Mail newspaper reported.
William Crosbie has warned Ottawa that information in one of the U.S. diplomatic cables could damage his country's relations with Afghanistan, the newspaper reported.Story: Assange lawyer condemns calls for assassination of WikiLeaks' founder
In a yet-to-be-released document, the ambassador reportedly was very critical of Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai and his powerful family, the newspaper reported.
"My words about Karzai and the influence of his family may attract attention, and they will be damaging for our relations with him and his government if they do so," Crosbie said in a note to Ottawa, a copy of which the newspaper obtained.
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"Much depends on how Karzai reacts to the WikiLeaks. Will they cause him to take steps that will be unacceptable for our ongoing support? There are several critical decision points in the coming weeks," the newspaper reported.
Crosbie said U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry briefed Kabul diplomats on "potentially cataclysmic fallout" from the whistle-blower's revelation, the newspaper reported. Eikenberry reportedly said he was afraid that the revelations could antagonize Karzai and force him into a stand-off with Western allies.
The Globe and Mail reported that in one cable, Crosbiecriticizes Karzai and his family, including his half-brother and Kandahar power-broker Ahmed Wali Karzai.
"The message is a report of a lengthy meeting on Feb. 20, 2010, in which I speak in very critical terms about the misuse of power by Karzai and his family (AWK is named) and urge the international community to oppose Karzai's attempts to take control of the electoral law in advance of the [parliamentary] elections," Mr. Crosbie wrote, according the The Globe and Mail.
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WikiLeaks has also revealed stinging criticism of Karzai by American diplomats.
The New York Times reported Thursday thatafter earlier glowing praise for Karzai, Eikenberry offered blunt criticisms of himin a July 2009 cable.
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The Times also reported that British, Australianand Arab state diplomats also expressed exasperation with Karzai.
A cable released Tuesday said President Karzai freed dangerous detainees and pardoned suspected drug dealers because they had connections to powerful figures.
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The cable, which supports the multiple allegations of corruption within the Karzai government, said that despite repeated rebukes from U.S. officials in Kabul, the president and his attorney general authorized the release of detainees.
"Both authorize the release of detainees pretrial and allow dangerous individuals to go free or re-enter the battlefield without ever facing an Afghan court," said the cable written on Aug. 6, 2009 by Frank Ricciardone, deputy U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan.
The policemen were tried, convicted and each was sentenced to 16 to 18 years in prison, but Karzai "pardoned all five of them on the grounds that they were distantly related to two individuals who had been martyred during the civil war," the cable said.
According to the cable, Karzai also tampered with the narcotics case of Haji Amanullah, the son of a wealthy businessman and one of the president's supporters.
"Without any constitutional authority, Karzai ordered the police to conduct a second investigation which resulted in the conclusion that the defendant had been framed," Ricciardone wrote.
He wrote that intelligence reports indicated that Karzai also was planning to release Ismail Safad, a drug trafficker sentenced to 19 years in jail. Safad was a priority target for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency who was arrested in 2005 with large quantities of heroin and weapons.
Abdul Makhtar, deputy director of the Afghan prison department, said Safad was still incarcerated at Pul-i Charkhi prison, the main detention facility in Kabul.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Two graduate students are killed in the middle of the night only a quarter-mile from campus. Patrick Healy reports.
Two University of Southern California graduate students from China were shot to death in a car overnight in what could be a bungled carjacking, Los Angeles police reported Wednesday.
The victims, a male and a female, were shot around 1 a.m. local time on a residential street about a mile from campus.
USC later identified the victims as electrical engineering grad students Ying Wu and Ming Qu.
Police were interviewing neighbors and searching the area on Wednesday.
A Los Angeles police spokesman said a witness saw a man running from the scene, NBCLosAngeles.com reported.
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One of the Chinese students shot dead in Los Angeles had run to this home for help.
The male victim was able to stumble onto a nearby porch before collapsing, while the woman was found slumped over inside the vehicle, a late-model BMW, the Los Angeles Times reported.
USC campus police sent out two alerts about a deadly off-campus shooting -- one at 6:03 a.m. that reported a shooting, and a second 21 minutes later that stated that a male and female had been shot dead.
The campus was not locked down, though the second alert advised students "to be mindful of their surroundings and review safety tips" on a USC website page.
USC says 7,200 of its 38,000 undergrad and graduate students in 2011 were international, and that the largest group was from China.
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Stunning A320neo sales success continues in 2012
Norwegian, one of the largest low-cost airlines in Europe, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Airbus for 100 A320neo aircraft. The agreement, which makes Norwegian the latest customer for the A320neo and also a new customer for Airbus, was signed by Bjørn Kjos, Chief Executive Officer, Norwegian and John Leahy, Airbus Chief Operating Officer, Customers.
The new aircraft will support Norwegian's growth and modernisation strategy. Norwegian (the brand name of Norwegian Air Shuttle AS) operates a network across Europe into North Africa and the Middle East, and is rapidly expanding its low cost operations. The new aircraft will feature a single class cabin layout, seating approximately 180 passengers. Norwegian's engine decision will be announced at a later date.
"The A320neo will enable us increasing capacity while decreasing our operating costs," said Bjørn Kjos, Chief Executive Officer, Norwegian. "With this aircraft we will continue to boost our reputation for offering high quality, low fares service with the most modern and eco-efficient fleet of aircraft in Scandinavia".
"We are very pleased to welcome Norwegian as an all-new Airbus customer. Their A320neo commitment is a further demonstration of the undisputable success of the A320neo's record-setting credentials. The A320neo sets new industry standards for eco-efficiency and passenger appeal." said John Leahy.
Over 8,300 A320 Family aircraft have been ordered and some 5,000 delivered to more than 340 customers and operators worldwide reaffirming its position as the world's best-selling single-aisle aircraft Family. The A320neo has over 95 percent airframe commonality making it an easy fit into existing fleets while offering up to 500 nautical miles (950 kilometres) more range or two tonnes more payload at a given range.
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Description & Behavior
Sevengill sharks, Notorynchus cepedianus (Péron, 1807), aka bluntnoses, broadnoses, broad snouted, broad-snouts, broadsnout sevengill sharks, Pacific seven-gills, and Tasmanian tiger sharks, are members of the most ancient frill and cow sharks order, Hexanchiformes. Hexanchiform sharks are identified by a single dorsal fin set far back on their bodies, either six or seven gill slits (versus the five found in all other existing sharks), and no nictitating membranes (protective third eyelids). Frilled sharks, Chlamydoselachus sp., are so different from the cow sharks that they are likely to be moved to their own Order Chlamydoselachiformes in the near future.
There are currently four known species of cow sharks:
- Sevengill sharks, Notorynchus cepedianus,
- Sharpnose sevengill sharks, Heptranchias perlo,
- Sixgill sharks, Hexanchus griseus, and
- Bigeyed sixgill sharks, Hexanchus nakamurai.
Sevengill sharks, named for having seven gill slits on either side of their bodies, reach lengths of at least 3 m with an average length of 1.5 m. They weigh up to 107 kg and are known to live as long as 49 years. Sevengills are thought to reach sexual maturity when they reach 1.5 to 2.2 m in length.
These are large active sharks with wide heads, small eyes, short blunt snouts and fusiform (spindle-shaped, wide in the middle, tapering at both ends) bodies. They have small single dorsal fins that are set far back over their pelvic fins. Their anal fin is smaller than their dorsal fin.
Sevengill sharks have a tooth "count" of 15-16/13 (upper/lower jaw). Their teeth are wide, large and comb-shaped in their lower jaws, which they use to tear and cut into prey. The teeth in their upper jaws are sharp and jagged which they use to hold onto prey.
Sevengill sharks are reddish-brown to silvery-gray or olive-brown with numerous small black spots on their bodies and fins; their undersides are a light or cream color. This counter-shading is a common type of camouflage that helps the sevengill blend into the sea bottom or ocean depths when viewed from above and the lighter surface waters when viewed from below. This counter-shading is also common among many pelagic species of sharks and fishes as well as other marine species.
Sharpnose sevengill sharks, Heptranchias perlo is a similar species but can be distinguished by the lack of black spots on the body as well as larger eyes and smaller bodies than sevengills.
World Range & Habitat
Sevengill sharks, Notorynchus cepedianus, are demersal (on or near the bottom of the sea) and at depths of 0 – 570 m with a typical depth of around 80 m. They inhabit waters of the subtropics at 56°N – 55°S, 131°W – 177°E. Sevengills are usually found over the continental shelves and often in shallow waters. They are often sighted close inshore, in bays and estuaries, with larger individuals having ranges that include deeper waters offshore and deep channels in bays to 570 m. They are seen usually cruising slowly near the bottom, even in waters as shallow as a meter, and sometimes at the surface. Sevengills are known to attack at great speeds when pursuing prey. These sharks seem to prefer rocky bottom habitats although they commonly occur over sandy and muddy bottoms as well.
Sevengills are circumglobal (distributed around the world within a range of latitudes) in tropical to temperate waters except for the North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. Sevengills are found in the southwest Atlantic in the waters off southern Brazil to northern Argentina. They are also found in the southeast Atlantic off Namibia to East London, South Africa. In the western Pacific, they are found off southern Japan to New Zealand and in the eastern Pacific, they are found from British Columbia, Canada to Chile.
Feeding Behavior (Ecology)
Sevengill sharks, Notorynchus cepedianus, typically feed on relatively large fish of all kinds, including other sharks, as well as crustaceans and carrion. They are opportunistic predators and have been found to eat almost anything including rays, chimaeras, hagfish, dolphins, porpoises, seals, shark egg cases, sea snails and rats and human carrion (dead bodies found at sea).
Sevengill sharks sometimes hunt in packs, working as a team to capture large prey such as marine mammals and other sharks. They are also known to stalk prey from behind and then swim forward rapidly to capture prey.
Large predatory sharks, such as white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, have been documented as predators of sevengill sharks and cannibalism has also been noted to occur in this species.
Life History
Sevengill sharks, Notorynchus cepedianus, like all cow sharks, are ovoviviparous, with the embryos developing inside eggs-cases inside the mother's body until they hatch, with 82 to 95 pups per litter.
Female sevengills are known to move into shallow bays to give birth, after a 12 month gestation period, during the spring and early summer. Each pup measures about 40-45 cm in length. Young sevengills remain in shallow water nursery grounds before moving out to deeper offshore environments in the first few years of their lives.
Conservation Status & Comments
Sevengill sharks, Notorynchus cepedianus, are currently listed as Data deficient (DD) on the IUCN Red List: "This assessment is based on the information published in the 2005 shark status survey (Fowler et al. 2005).
Although wide ranging and moderately common (where not heavily exploited), the Broadnose Sevengill Shark (Notorynchus cepedianus) is restricted to a limited inshore depth range in heavily fished temperate waters and is exposed to intensive inshore fisheries over most of its range. The central Californian stock in the San Francisco Bay area is thought to have been depleted in the early 1980s, but lack of fisheries data elsewhere make it impossible to determine whether this pattern of depletion definitely operates throughout its range."
Major threats to sevengills, according to IUCN: "This shark's flesh is of good quality and it is also taken in some areas for its hide and liver oil. Intensive commercial and sports fisheries in San Francisco Bay targeting it for its fine meat caused a marked local decline in numbers during the early 1980s. It is utilised in China for its skin and liver. Pollution may be a possible threat to inshore bays which are nurseries.
Although wide ranging in temperate waters and moderately common where not heavily exploited (e.g., southern Africa), this large shark has a limited inshore bathymetric range in heavily fished temperate waters and is often concentrated in shallow bays. This exposes it to intensive inshore bycatch and sometimes targeted commercial, sports and semi-commercial fisheries over most of its range, particularly off China, California, Argentina, Namibia and South Africa (Compagno in prep. a). Catch statistics are not reported, except for the west coast of the USA, which show a peak in landings of 1.55 t in 1981 with a sharp decline to less than 0.1 t in 1986 (Compagno in prep. a)."
According to the FLMNH Ichthyology Department (home of the International Shark Attack File): "During the 1930s and 1940s, the sevengill shark was quite common in the shark fisheries along the coast of California. Although the commercial fishery soon collapsed, recreational shark fishing for this species became popular. However, this fishery declined in the late 1980s and 1990s with recreational fishers targeting other species. Today the sevengill shark is caught primarily by anglers as well as incidental bycatch in commercial fisheries targeting other species.
Currently, the California population of sevengill sharks appears to be concentrated in the Humboldt and San Francisco Bays. These two areas provide nursery areas and safe havens for juveniles. The future of the sevengill shark in this region is highly dependent upon the conservation of these habitats.
Although this shark has a wide range, it is subject to intense fishing pressure as a result of being restricted to inshore waters. Currently the World Conservation Union (IUCN) lists the sevengill shark as "Data Deficient". Data is lacking in most regions, making it difficult to determine the overall status of this species. However, it is currently assessed as "Near Threatened" in the eastern Pacific Ocean."
Conservation Actions: There is generally no management of fisheries or protection for this species, although it occurs in at least one marine reserve in South Africa.
Sevengills are often caught by anglers from the shore and are consumed by humans, their skin for leather and their liver as a source of oil. They are commercially and recreationally fished for throughout their range in the eastern Pacific Ocean, from British Columbia to southern California, as well as in Australian waters. Sevengills are also often taken as incidental bycatch in the driftnet and trawl fisheries off the coast of California.
Sevengills are known to be aggressive when provoked and are regarded as potentially dangerous to people in open waters. They have attacked divers in captivity and may have been involved in a few shark attacks off California and South Africa. According to the International Shark Attack File, the sevengill shark has been responsible for five documented unprovoked attacks on humans since the 16th century.
References & Further Research
Are Sevengill Sharks Making a Comeback? – tracking sevengill shark encounters in the San Diego area
Elasmodiver.com – image database of sharks, skates, rays, and chimaera's from around the world by Andy Murch
Shark Observation Network: Help researchers study the broadnose sevengill shark in the San Diego area
Research Notorynchus cepedianus @
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The Prime Minister did not meet Mr Hollande when he visited Paris in February and had indicated his support for Mr Sarkozy in the contest but the pair have agreed to build on the already ''very close relationship'' between the two nations.
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Labour leader Ed Miliband said: ''I congratulate Francois Hollande on his election as President of France.
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The new French president is determined to re-open the EU's new ''fiscal treaty'' to balance its austerity drive with together commitments on restoring growth.
The move, signalled early on in his presidential election campaign, puts him at odds with German chancellor Angela Merkel and her insistence on austerity measures as a priority to prop up the eurozone.
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EU officials in Brussels believe Mr Hollande will swiftly deploy renewed French clout in the Union to shake up the current carefully-laid economic strategy of tough budget discipline on eurozone economies and enforced austerity on counties needing bail-outs.
Already, before the election result, the EU's Economic Affairs Commissioner had signalled a new emphasis on growth, after months in which EU policy had been driven by the Franco-German austerity-driven strategy.
But the so-called Merkozy double act of Merkel and Sarkozy is now over and relations are likely to be strained between Berlin and Paris until it becomes clear how far Mr Hollande will go in pushing his French ideas on what the EU's growth pact should look like.
Meanwhile, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso issued a formal statement congratulating the new occupant of the Elysee Palace, declaring: ''I know I can count on the personal engagement of Francois Hollande to advance European integration.''
Mr Barroso insisted that he shared Mr Hollande's conviction that investment in growth was the way forward and that the EU aim now would be to generate durable economic growth and jobs.
But Ukip leader Nigel Farage predicted the new Hollande economic approach would split the Franco-German alliance:
''Hollande's election is great news,'' he said. ''It will help drive a wedge between Germany and France, the two of the engines of EU integration.
''The friction between German austerity and French profligacy will increase and bring the eventual demise of the EU even closer.''
The Party of European Socialists said the arrival of the new French president was ''a victory for progress in France and in Europe''.
PES President Sergei Stanishev said: ''The election of a socialist to the Elysee is a great day, not only for France, but for Europe. It is a profound rejection of the Merkozy madness that has choked European economic growth for the last two years.''
Martin Schulz, the German president of the European Parliament, commented: ''Congratulations to Francois Hollande. Now it's time for a change of direction in Europe.
''On top of fiscal consolidation, which is necessary, the EU is now ready for a growth policy, which is what the European Parliament has been calling for a long time''.
Liberal leader in the European Parliament Guy Verhofstadt said former President Sarkozy's stand on the eurozone crisis had been ''disappointing and alarming'', but Francois Hollande was now promising to ''bring his country back into a European dynamic''.
Mr Verhofstadt went on: ''With him, new prospects will open up for the economic governance of the eurozone.''


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Plumbr, a Java performance monitoring solution, has released a new Locked Thread Detection feature.
This is aimed at understanding of how to solve performance issues of different applications to prevent unsatisfactory end-user experience by automatically detecting the root cause of performance problems.
Cofounder and CEO of Plumbr, Priit Potter, says that Plumbr eliminates the need to manually detect the root cause of why the end-users can't buy items from (for example) an online shop or make money transfers, saving IT teams on average two weeks per performance problem.
"Faster and more stable service makes a big difference in e-commerce, because every lost second could mean a lost customer," Potter added.
According to Plumbr's survey, 16% of different Java-based applications (e.g. banks, online stores, and CRM-s) are suffering from locked threads.
The end-user experiences locked threads problem as slow performing applications or webpages. Locked threads and other performance issues get attention usually only after the end-user is affected — 82% of the cases, the issue at hand impacted end users in production.
"Compared to other Java performance-monitoring solutions, Plumbr is the only one that automatically detects the root causes of performance issues. It doesn't tell you that your Java app is running out of memory. It gives you the 10 lines of new code you need to copy-paste to your code base to make the issue go away. The new feature answers the requests of developers and IT operations engineers," said Potter.
Out of 500 Java applications that Plumbr studied, 80 applications were suffering from locked threads.
Locked Thread Detection is the third feature Plumbr has launched since it was founded in 2011. Plumbr also detects memory leaks and inefficient Garbage Collection behavior, locating the specific line of code or error in configuration that is causing the problem in your application and equips you with a step-by-step solution for the fix.


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You Can't Please Everyone: The Dubious Relationship between Logan Square and it's Bohemian Inhabitants
(Please note: this is rather long, props still need to be given and links need to be made. I will make sure to do so ASAP… I just needed to get it up here before it's totally outdated.)
I love living in Logan Square. I love the tree-lined streets and the elote carts, with their awkward, honking horns. I love the lively Quince años parties in people's yards in the summer. I love the candy that's left over after the piñatas have been broken and the kids have gotten sick from sugar.
Most of all, I love that I can afford to have a bedroom, a painting studio, and an office. My boyfriend has a bike shop and a wood shop. My dog has his own bedroom. I have more than enough space and I only have to travel an extra mile out of my way to get it.
Often, though, my enjoyment is soured by subtle reminders that I am not entirely welcome here. To some of my neighbors, I am a blonde-haired harbinger of doom and my freshly renovated apartment with its' granite countertops and hardwood floors is the lair in which I conspire my fascist agenda. Or something like that.
Although most of Logan Square has already been gentrified, the West end, where I live, is just beginning to turn. And so somehow, although this is my home too and I only want what's best, my being here is apparently an open invitation for self-involved yuppies and money-hungry developers to come suck the life out of the neighborhood. I realize that some of my queasiness about gentrification can probably just be chalked up to white guilt, but gentrification is a real and hotly debated issue and discussions about it are not only valid but important, so I will forge on. Read the rest of this entry »


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Last week my new print arrived from Leigh Viner. I like the way it looks on the black wall behind my desk, just the right contrast. She has quite a few other prints as well that are worth a look.
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Early Greek writers wrote up list of the most important buildings in the world they knew. Of these, only the Great Pyramid have survived, but we know about the other wonders from the writer's account and the work of archaeologists.
The Great Pyramid of Giza
The Great Pyramid Of Giza was made as a tomb for king Khufu who ruled Egypt from about 2551 to 2528 B.C. It is the oldest and the only one of the seven wonders to survive. The Greek and the Romans marvelled at the size of the pyramids. This pyramids stands about 135 high. Its base occupies and area of about 5 hectares.
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
It was built by king Nebuchadnezzar II who ruled Babylon from 605 to 562 B.C. They say that the legendary gardens may not have existed. Babylon was located near, modern Baghdad in Iraq. "Hanging" suggest that they were series of terraces made of bricks, which are brightly coloured.
The Temple of Artemis
The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Turkey was one of the largest and most complicated temples built in ancient times. The Temple was completed in 550 B.C. It was dedicated to Greek goddess, Artemis and was designed by the architect Chersiphron and his son, Metagenes. The archaeologists have found the foundations and some columns of the second temple which was built when the first temple was ruined.
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
This structure was dedicated to Zeus, the king of the Gods. It was perhaps the most famous statue in the ancient world. This enormous statue was carved by the sculptor Phidias. Archaeologists have found little remains of the temple and nothing of the statue.
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
This white-marbled tomb is located in south-western Turkey. This was the tomb of Persian ruler Mausolus. It was carved by four famous greek sculptors. After the death of the ruler, his widow built this marvellous tomb which measures 105 by 242 metre and was 43 mt high. It was damaged by an earthquake.
The Colossus of Rhodes
The huge statue of sun god Helios stood in Rhodes an island in the Aegean sea. It was made up of bronze and stood about 37 mts tall. The Greek sculptor Chares, worked 12 years on it in the early 200 B.C. But in 226 B.C., it was destroyed by an earthquake.
The Light House Of Alexandria
This was a light house off the coast of the city, Alexandria on the island of Pharos, Egypt. It was designed by the Greek architect, Sostratos. The fire burning at the top of the light house provided light. It was over 123 mts high and stood for about 1500 years. It was destroyed by an earthquake sometime in the A.D. 1300.
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Ancient Wonders of the World
Early Greek writers wrote up list of the most important buildings in the world they knew. Of these, only the Great Pyramid have survived, but we know about the other wonders from the writer's account and the work of archaeologists.
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Another state with an archaic blasphemy law on the books is Greece, and they recently cracked down and arrested a 27 year old FaceBook user for using a mocking pseudonym, "Gerontas Pastitsios", for some famous Greek Orthodox monk. He faces up to two years in prison for "malicious blasphemy".
There is a petition to have him released and most importantly, abolish pointless laws against free speech.


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The Newsroom Season 1 Episode 8 recap
This was the line that struck me, last night, in what was easily the best episode of The Newsroom so far. Though there were still problems, the show took the time to focus on what it does, and wants to do, best: examining the difference between the news that should be reported, and that which is instead.
People in the entertainment world often get called narcissistic – and while this can be true, there is so much talk about the viewer. Will the viewer respond to this, will they like it, will they understand it, will they be able to follow it, will they care. It's about ratings, sure. But also about straight-up storytelling – how do you keep people paying attention to what you're doing, and how far is too far – if such a location exists?
Don's speech breaking down the Nancy Grace broadcast was supposed to be seen as "despicable", at least in that he knew what he was talking about. But trash TV – especially that which masquerades as "news" – is HUGELY popular. No matter what that means for you, whether it's shows about Hoarders or Weddings or Bachelors or Nancy Grace, people are watching. Probably you are watching. I'm not criticizing, I'm just saying there's nobody who doesn't consume something that someone else finds distasteful.
So I appreciate that NewsNight needs to acknowledge that its adherence to the "real", honorable news is a nice fight and all but could lose them their jobs. I further appreciate that we don't yet see how, exactly, covering the case will compromise Will – not that he's not already doing a good job of that by consorting with the likes of "Sandy", whose production I could have stood to see a little more of. Someone printed those tweets for her and got her all those news appearances, and the way she was talking, she didn't seem terribly self-motivated, so an appearance by the "agent" we were hearing about would have been welcome.
The balance of the tacky-and-delicious with the important-and-worthy is the hardest thing to do in any type of TV. Scripted or not, "hard" news or lifestyle or entertainment. There are tried-and-true go-to segments that are crowdpleasers every time, even if they are derided by the professionals who run them. The show is doing a great job at pointing out the dichotomy of having "control" over the airwaves – A, you don't really, because everyone has a boss and bosses have self-interests and so on, and B, even if you do the best reporting of your life, the most salacious, splashy, flashbulb-transition-laden piece is often the one that gets the eyeballs.
But it's OK, because watching the characters at ACN have this debate was eminently watchable. Much more so than having to watch that awful, pointless scene with Neal and Sloan. I guess the conventional wisdom is that it's OK – we don't think she's shallow for caring about her ass because she's working so hard on economics? (Or, for that matter, that people still have to explain trolls to others?) I can buy that, of course; there is no corollary between being an intelligent person working at one's job who also has body issues. But why is it necessary to see it in the same episode? Is this the "candy" we've been warned against elsewhere? "I know it seems a little dry that this woman's railing about the importance of reporting on economics, but she's just like you, she worries about her ass." Is that it? Or am I missing something? Didn't the show just finish skewering this very point when they looked at the Casey Anthony footage and talked about how it was engineered to appeal to women, even "smart" women?
Speaking of skewering – I don't think it will be a surprise to anyone that I am thoroughly exhausted already at the discussion of The Affair. Mac Cheated. She Cheated. She Can See The Life She Almost Had 30 Feet Away. Oh my God already with the flagellation of this point.
Here we go with the personal: I've made some bad decisions, because I am human. I've even made bad decisions that I had to keep up a brave face on, continually, for some time later. Not gonna lie, those are some big winces I winced, for awhile there. Lesson learned – painfully.
But – am I the only one who thinks those things fade after time? That with everything else going on, grinding axes about who cheated on whom when FOUR years ago is a little passé? I get that continuing tensions and resentment between Will and Mac are all that's keeping them apart but I think it's bullsh*t. Will is trying to punish Mac, yes, though I could really have skipped the therapy scene (and bonus points if you think of what I do every time that therapist comes onscreen), but doesn't that mean he's not worthy? In four years, neither of them moved on an inch, learned a thing? I'm not saying they couldn't still be attracted to one another but they act as though they're picking up right where they left off. Wouldn't it be potentially MORE interesting if one was less interested than the other? If one had all these feelings and the other really was totally over it? Wouldn't you then feel like you were left holding the bag?
Would a show about the news, that didn't also make me walk through what are obviously ridiculous relationships, consist of all "vegetables"? Is the junk food of romantic shenanigans made better if the people involved in the romances are high-brow intelligent folks? I believe Sorkin knows, on some level, that having a taste for the "good stuff" has its own merit because – obviously. Look at the body of work. But sometimes it seems like contradicting oneself is the lesser of several evils.
We'll come back to this in Part II. Oh, and Maggie is a Christian. By the way.


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A semester abroad or significant cross cultural internship is required of all International Studies majors; and Intercultural Studies majors are required to do a shorter overseas internship or mission trip.
To talk more about study abroad through Belhaven, contact Ken Nehrbass, chair of International Studies at: firstname.lastname@example.com
Student Blogs
You can read about the experiences of some of our international studies students as they travel abroad and share their thoughts in the International Studies Blog.
Study Abroad
Where do you plan to go? The first step in going abroad is to decide which country or countries would be most beneficial for you to get acquainted with. What foreign language do you need to learn? What cultures do you need to understand for your future work or studies? As you look at the programs below, you can narrow down which programs you'll apply to, based on the countries in which they offer programs.
Council for Christian Colleges and Universities study abroad program
As a Christian university, Belhaven belongs to the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) www.cccu.org. CCCU has a study abroad program called "Best Semester" http://www.bestsemester.comwith the following programs:
- Australia Studies Center: Sydney, Australia
- China Studies Program: Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an, Xiamen
- Latin America Studies Program: Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Panama
- Middle East Studies Program: Cairo, Egypt
- Russian Studies Program: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhni Novgorod
- Uganda Studies Program: Mukono, Uganda
Exchange Programs:
Belhaven maintains tuition exchange programs with some foreign and US-based universities. If you study abroad at one of the universities in our exchange programs, you generally would only pay whatever you're paying for Belhaven University tuition, plus airfare, food and lodging. As part of an exchange, Belhaven has also been blessed to receive students for a semester or year from many of these universities. The following list shows many of the universities with which we have exchange programs:
- Chung Yuan Christian University http://cycu.edu.tw
- Chung-Li, Taiwan
- Graduate and Undergraduate opportunities
- Graduate scholarships available
- DIMA (Dong-Ah Institute of Media and Arts, Korea) http://eng.dima.ac.kr/
- Seoul Women's University, Korea http://www.swu.ac.kr/english/
- Summer 1-month cultural exchange
- One year exchange
- British Council http://www.britishcouncil.org/new/
- Northern Ireland
- One semester exchange
- Rwanda Presidential Scholars Program http://www.sit.edu/studyabroad/ssa_rwt.cfm
- A five-month program offered as a joint collaboration between SIT (School for International Training) Study Abroad and The Rwanda Presidential Scholars Program
- Administered by Hendrix College in partnership with the William J. Clinton Foundation.
- Christ's College http://www.christc.org.tw
- Taipei, Taiwan
- One semester study program
- University of Southern Mississippi
- The University of Southern Mississippi offers study abroad programs in Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Costa Rica, England, France, Germany, Holland, Honduras, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, Spain, Vietnam and Wales. For a full listing of their programs, go to http://www.usm.edu/study-abroad/list-programs-0
Foreign Universities with International Studies programs
You may choose to work out your own agreement with a university overseas. Some examples of universities with established international student programs are:
- Handong Global University in South Korea. www.handong.edu
- Studio Art Centers International (Florence, Italy) www.saci-florence.edu
Other Study Abroad Providers
You may also choose to go with a US-based Study Abroad provider. The advantage is they have lots of experience organizing semesters abroad, their credits usually transfer, and they usually accepts Title IV financial aid. The disadvantage is that they tend to be the most expensive. Some of these providers are:
- American Councils www.acstudyabroad.org
- Russia, Balkan language initiative, Arabic Abroad, Eurasia abroad, Indonesia.
- CAPA www.capa.org
- Transfer credits for studying just about any major
- Beijing, Buenos Aires, Florence, Istanbul, London and Sydney.
- CET academic programs http://cetacademicprograms.com/
- China, Czech Republic, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Tunisia, Vietnam
- They offer scholarships, too.
- GlobalLinks Learning Abroad www.globallinksabroad.org/semester
- Australia, China, Czech Republic, England, Fiji, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Scotland, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, Wales.
- They also offer internships
- IES abroad www.iesabraod.org
- Argentina, Australia, Austria, Chile, china, Ecuador, England, EU, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, japan, morocco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain
- New York Film Academy
- Study arts in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; India; Australia; or Italy.
- Northwestern College (Iowa) www.nwciowa.edu/study-abroad
- Programs in Oman and Romania
- Semester at Sea www.semesteratsea.org
- Opportunities in Japan, Russia, Denmark, Hong Kong, India, Turkey, Brazil, South Africa and Egypt.
- Sponsored by the University of Virginia
- Semester in Spain www.semesterinspain.org
- Veritas (Christian Study abroad program) veritasabroad.com
- Chile, England, Italy, Spain
International studies majors may choose to do an internship anywhere else in the world. Here are some possibilities:
- African Bible University of Uganda
- Christian Heritage apologetics apprenticeship in Cambridge, England www.christianheritage.org.uk
- Operation Mobilization http://www.om.org/
- Serving in various capacities with the OM ships
- Agua Azul Sierra, Honduras, CA
- 1-2 students per semester serving with the ministry in economic development
- Sal y Luz (Salt and Light) in Honduras www.saltandlightministrie.org
- Sea Turtles9111 www.seaturtles911.org
- Chinese Cultural and language immersion, plus volunteer opportunities
- Located in Sanya, Hainan Island, China.
- Wycliffe Bible Translators 6-9 week Discovery Internship programs http://www.wycliffe.org/Go/ShortTerm/DiscoveryTrips.aspx
- Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Ecuador, Kenya, Mali, Mexico, Mozambique, Solomon Island, Uganda
- Food for the Hungry/GoEd http://www.fh.org/go-ed
- Study abroad and serve with Food for the Hungry
Scholarships available for International Studies Majors
- DAAD (Germany) www.daad.org
- For high-achieving science students
- Also offer summer courses July-September
- Freeman Asia scholarship. www.iie.org/en/programs/freeman-asia
- Fund for education Abroad: www.fundforeducationabroad.com
- Rotary Ambassadorial scholarship www.rotary.org/en/studentsandyouth/educationalprograms/ambassadorialscholarships/pages/ridefault.aspx
- Boren Scholarships and Fellowships www.borenawards.org
- (require a commitment to work in the federal government for one year)


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The cool thing about science is that, even in the areas that you think you are pretty knowledgeable, surprises abound. This is what keeps me turning up to work (occasionally) and (even more occasionally) committing the crime of science writing. In this case, I get to combine a work interest (using light to measure stuff) with one of last century's passing fads (light with orbital angular momentum).
I'm being a little unfair to the community of researchers who play with twisted light. In the '90s, twisted light was a big deal. Then after the echoes from the gasps of amazement died down, it proved to be difficult to sustain broad interest. Nevertheless, there is a core of researchers who are still investigating and finding uses for these strange light fields. In a recent paper, some of those researchers have shown that imparting orbital angular momentum to a light field allows one to make certain types of measurements with an accuracy that would otherwise be impractical, if not entirely impossible.
In many types of optical measurements, we rely on the accurate alignment of two coordinate systems. Imagine a light beam that gets split in two. One light beam goes to some reference, where its polarization is measured. The second light beam has something done to it, and then its polarization is measured by some other instrument.
Polarization is a measurement that tells us about the spatial orientation of the electromagnetic field of the light and how it evolves in time. For instance, a linearly polarized light field implies that the electric field oscillates in a single plane—at one instant in time, the field is at a maximum in one direction, while at another there is no electric field at all; later, it is maximum in the opposite direction. Circularly polarized light, on the other hand, has an electric field amplitude that stays constant, but it rotates in a circle as the light propagates.
When we measure polarization, however, we use apparatuses that measure the intensity of light after it has been filtered at a specific orientation. Clearly, any statement we make about the polarization of a light field depends on the orientation of the filters—in other words, on the orientation of our coordinate system. In our example above, if one instrument is tipped at an angle to the other, then they will never agree on the polarization state unless we have a purely circularly polarized light field.
For a very precise measurement, we will want the two filters aligned as perfectly as possible. How accurately can this be done? The answer with normal light is that the accuracy goes as the square root of the number of photons in the light beam. The longer you measure, the more photons you get, and the more accurate you get. But your accuracy only increases slowly with increasing photon numbers—more precisely, it increases with the square root of the photon number. This is called the shot-noise limit, and it is the limiting factor in all classical experiments.
To achieve a more accurate measurement, you need to use specially prepared entangled states of light. Their accuracy is a bit more complicated, but if you could entangle N photons and only make one measurement, then the accuracy will be proportional to N (as opposed to the square root of N in the classical case). That is, the more photons you entangle, the more accurately you can measure. One can also make multiple measurements, so, if you make nine measurements with N, you get an accuracy that is three times better. That is, we get a sort of mix of the classical situation and the quantum situation. The accuracy scales linearly with the number of photons used in a single measurement and as the square root of the number of measurements.
Quantum entanglement
Quantum entanglement is one of the most misused concepts around. Entanglement is delicate, rare, and short-lived. At its heart, quantum entanglement is nothing more or less than a correlation between two apparently separate quantum objects. Having discovered that, you might ask "so what is all the fuss about?" The answer lies deep in quantum mechanics.Read more…
This sounds promising then. If you want more accuracy, entangle more photons. Unfortunately, that is easier said than done. So, an alternative would be nice. And this is exactly what this multinational team of researchers has achieved.
Light that is... twisted
Now that we understand the limitations of the measurements, we need to take a break and understand what makes twisted light different. From a quantum mechanical perspective, this is very easy. Every particle is defined by a set of quantum numbers that define its energy, momentum, spin momentum, and orbital angular momentum. Light typically has an energy defined by its frequency and a momentum defined by its wavelength.
The polarization is defined by the spin momentum. Spin momentum can be +1 or -1, corresponding to the two different directions the electric field vector rotates for circularly polarized light—other polarizations are admixtures of these two components. But what about orbital angular momentum? Normally, that is zero. However, if you can make it non-zero, then you have twisted light. Furthermore, unlike spin momentum which takes on just two values, orbital angular momentum can take on integer values as large or small as you like.
What does such a light beam look like? The name gives it away in a sense. As the picture illustrates, at any particular plane across the light field, the electric field is always pointing slightly inward. So, unlike an ordinary light beam where the phase is nearly constant across the light field—that is, the wave has the same starting point in an oscillation everywhere across the beam—here it varies in multiples of 180 degrees across the beam. The electric field spirals around like a corkscrew; hence, twisted light. The quantum number tells how sharp the spiral is, while the sign tells us the direction of the spiral.
If you think carefully about the spiral nature, you will see that at the very center of the beam, the electric field has to be in one of two possible phases. The only way it can do that is with a field of zero amplitude, so the beam has a dark spot in the center. If the quantum number is larger, the spiral is tighter and there are additional locations where the phase must take on two values, so the beam breaks up into a ring of spots surrounding a central dark region.
Using the twist to amplify a measurement
How does this help measurements? It comes down to the symmetry of the beam. Let's take an example, one where we add three units of orbital angular momentum to the light beam. We start off with light that is linearly polarized (so the electric field oscillates in a plane) parallel to the table and pass it through an optical element to add the orbital angular momentum. The beam that emerges has four spots that form a dark cross. If we do the same thing with a light beam that is linearly polarized vertically, then the beam with orbital angular momentum still has four spots, but they form a dark X.
The spots have rotated by 45 degrees—or have they? They could also have rotated by 135 degrees, or 225 degrees, or 315 degrees. In fact, the rotation is 135 degrees (the polarization of the incoming light beam has been rotated by 90 degrees, so it is 45+90 = 135). Our measuring equipment can't tell in that case, but if the polarization of the incoming light beam is rotated just 30 degrees from horizontal, our measuring equipment will report a rotation three times as large (90 degrees).
What this means is that small rotations are amplified in the measurement process by the amount of orbital angular momentum imparted to the light field. In the example above, our measurement of small polarization rotations is three times more sensitive than that which can be achieved using an ordinary light field.
We can use this to make measurements that involve tiny changes in polarization orientation or to ensure that a measurement apparatus has a consistent alignment. The results will be much more accurate than thought possible, all by using a relatively trivial measurement procedure. Indeed, with large amounts of orbital angular momentum, the sensitivity increases further. Even better, the sensitivity is functionally the same as you would get using entangled photons—that is, we can achieve increases in accuracy that scale linearly with the imparted orbital angular momentum and as the square root of the number of measurements.
For our example above, we gained a factor of three in sensitivity using a beam with four units of angular momentum (the four points of the X). To achieve the same with an entangled state, we would need to entangle three photons, which is doable. On the other hand, it is trivial to impart 100 units of angular momentum to a light beam, but it's nearly impossible to entangle 99 photons with each other. That is a big practical difference.
There is also a cost to this approach, however. In the example with four units of angular momentum, the rotation is three times larger, which means that at 30 degrees, we measure a 90 degree rotation. Here, the symmetry comes back into play. If the rotation is marginally larger than 30 degrees, say 40 degrees, we will not be able to tell if this is a 20 degree rotation or a 40 degree rotation. That means that you are increasing accuracy at the expense of dynamic range. Effectively, you need to know beforehand that the angle you want to measure is small, which is often the case. Of course, you can imagine a more complicated scheme, where you first use a beam without angular momentum to determine the approximate rotation and then use the appropriate orbital angular momentum charge to make a more accurate measurement.
To give you an idea of how exciting this idea is, at the first opportunity, I convinced a student that we should see if this could be applied to some of our surface science measurements. She is going to do some calculations to see if our measurements are compatible and, hopefully, conduct some test experiments. I have hopes that we can achieve sensitivities much better than current commercial instruments.
Nature Communications, 2013, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3432


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Oh Jesus.
I'd rather see the Beyonce armpit pose than have to endure another edition of Celebrity Belly Cupping. Unfortunately, due to the rise of the Motherhood Industrial Complex, since Motherhood is the ultimate Whitewash, Belly Cupping is never going away.
Here's Fergie belly cupping at the Kids' Choice Awards -- how appropriate -- this weekend. Oh look. They even gave us the Husband AND Wife version. And it's too bad. Because this dress is awesome. And she looks so happy, having waited so long and tried so many times, and the pure joy on her face should be enough... without having to spoil it with the grossness of the belly cupping.
Like, we get it. You don't have to point out that you put your dick in there and then a baby is happening here. Are we really a society that needs pregnancy explained through visual aids? F-ck.


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Saturday night movies
The Gary J. Arthur Community Center offers a monthly movie screening from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 2400 Route 97 in Cooksville. Admission is $4, $2 for center members, and includes popcorn and a drink. Free for children 4 and younger.
•June 16: "The Great Outdoors" (rated PG)
Registration and information: 410-313-4840.
Glenwood Senior Center
Glenwood Senior Center, 2400 Route 97, Cooksville, offers the following events. Information: 410-313-5440:
Sittercize The hourlong exercise program includes seated aerobics, stretching and strengthening drills, 1 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Cost is $36 for 18 classes.
Fit for Life exercises Participants do aerobics, strength training and abdominal work, 8:20 a.m. to 9:20 a.m. Fridays. $45 for 12 classes.
Painting and drawing A painting and drawing open studio will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesdays. Bring your own supplies. Free.
Hatha yoga Classes in this Indian system of physical postures and breathing will be held from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. $45 for eight classes.
Silver Sneakers Walking Club The group is led by a staff member on an indoor track at 8:30 a.m. Mondays through Fridays. Everyone is invited.
Shoot pool Everyone is invited to shoot pool from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.
Senior hoops Players are welcome at 9 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.


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Little Charley Bear is a preschool show about a little bear who loves to use his imagination to play and go on adventures with friends from his toy box! Charley Bear is funny and engaging; children just love to shout 'Are you there, Charley Bear?' and then try and guess what Little Charley Bear is pretending to be. Enjoy songs, games and laughter and of course a visit from Santa."
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"Last time we were here in January, we were responding to a tragic loss. Today, we're again at the spot where 8-year-old Noshat Nahian was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer in December," de Blasio said on Monday.
"Every parent understands, when you stand in a spot where a child was lost, you feel something," he added. "And I certainly felt, again, the loss of a young boy that we wish so deeply was here with us today. In his memory, we are taking real actions to make sure we won't lose other children."
At the emotional bill-signing ceremony, several parents held tightly to pictures of lost loved ones, including several children, who have been the victims of New York City's tumultuous traffic flow. Among them was Dana Lerner, the mother of nine-year-old Cooper Stock, who was struck and killed by a taxi driver in the Upper East Side on January 10.
"He was walking legally in the crosswalk with my husband," Lerner said. "The taxi driver did not yield to them, he was driving recklessly, and I believe that there are a lot of taxi drivers that don't even know the rules.
"So as much as I believe there are good taxi drivers, I think a lot of them don't know a lot of these rules," she added. "They, in some ways, set the tone and the pace for the city. It's all the more important for professional drivers to be trained properly."
In Cooper's honor, a bill that makes it possible for the TLC to legally suspend and revoke licenses of drivers involved in accidents resulting in death or critical injury, has been named "Cooper's Law," and was among the eleven bills signed by the mayor in the recreation yard at PS 152.
The other 10 bills in the package increase penalties for drivers who fail to yield to pedestrians in a crosswalk, ban dangerous stunt behavior and speed contests by motorcyclists, and increase the number of neighborhood slow zones and speed limits near schools.
While the mayor's signature on these pieces of legislation is a critical piece of the legal process, there is still somewhat of a long road to travel before their effects are fully realized.
"First the governor has to sign the legislation, which we know he will do but we don't know exactly when," de Blasio explained. "And second the City Council has to pass enabling legislation, which again we obviously anticipate in short order, but that has to happen in sequence.
"Then in the fall, the signs will actually start to go up," he said. "There will be an education campaign leading up to that, but enforcement will happen as the signs start to go up."


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Healing Asian Soup with Ginger, served with a Big Hug for Barbara
Healing Asian Soup with Ginger
(Makes 4 small servings, recipe created by Kalyn with inspiration from several Asian cookbooks.)
4 cups homemade chicken stock (canned low-sodium chicken broth would work too)
3-4 thick slices fresh ginger root
1 cup sliced mushrooms (any type, but I used mild white mushrooms which seem more soothing for the tummy)
1 cup spinach leaves, sliced into thin ribbons
1 green onion, very thinly sliced
While ginger simmers in stock, wash and slice mushrooms and thinly slice spinach leaves. Clean green onion and slice into very thin slices. Bring infused stock back to a low simmer, then add mushrooms and simmer 1 minute. Add sliced spinach and simmer one minute more. Turn off heat and add green onions, then serve soup hot, with chopsticks to eat the veggies after you drink the broth.
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Cobain's legacy still evolving 15 years after suicide
It first hit Charlie Harger on Monday, when he told his radio broadcasting class that Sunday was the anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death, and all he got was nods and shrugs:
A lot can change in 15 years.
"It's weird seeing the detachment," said Harger, an anchor at KOMO-AM/1000 who teaches part-time at Green River Community College. "For my generation, I viewed it as a huge turning point when Cobain died. But when you step back from it, I'm not sure young people are as upset as I was."
Harger was 19 on April 5, 1994, the day medical examiners believe the 27-year-old rock star got high on heroin and Valium and shot himself dead with a shotgun, sending shock waves through the music world and drawing all eyes to the city that hosted his rise and -- reluctantly -- his fall.
There's no doubt Seattle will remember Kurt Cobain. The question is, how? And for what? With every year that moves him from the personal memory of some to the collective history of all, some say that should get easier to answer.
His disturbing suicide now long behind us, biographer Charles Cross sees Cobain's lasting legacy emerging in his art.
"His celebrity, the details of his death, some of that has faded, and maybe that's a good thing," Cross said. "It's less about the fact that Kurt died and more about the fact that he lived."
Of course, the long-closed case still has life. Seattle Police Sgt. Sean Whitcomb, who rocks out to Nirvana tunes on his Rock Band 2, said the department still keeps a file in its public disclosure unit for that occasional call from a zealous fan asking for the latest developments.
Most fans have let him rest in peace.
"I can hardly believe it has been 15 years," said Jeff Burlingame, co-founder of the Kurt Cobain Memorial Committee, a nonprofit organization working to celebrate Cobain in his hometown of Aberdeen. "And it seems like just yesterday that I smashed my $100 bass guitar through a sheet rock wall when I got word of his death."
Burlingame, who recently got the city to erect a sign that reads, "Welcome to Aberdeen. Come as you are," gave a presentation Sunday about Cobain's life and legacy to a packed house in an Aberdeen winery. Cobain's grandfather, Leland Cobain, was there, as were fans who had come from as far as Colorado and even Spain.
But even though Cobain's talent went around the world, it had the greatest impact right here.
"Nirvana was as important as Starbucks and Microsoft in making us count. We were all of a sudden -- we were the place to be," said Katherine Boury, who was 23 when she stumbled on a memorial service for Cobain at Seattle Center in 1994.
It wasn't any particular love of his music that made her attend the service when she heard it on a loudspeaker on the way to another Seattle Center event, she said. It was the way his identity had blended with the city's. He was more than a rock star. He was Seattle's rock star.
"It didn't matter whether you liked (Nirvana) or not. Kurt Cobain was definitely ours" she said. "He just really felt like somebody in your neighborhood. I don't know how to explain it."
Fifteen years ago Wednesday, Harger drove to Cobain's home on Lake Washington Boulevard and held vigil with two friends hours after Cobain's body was discovered there.
On Sunday, Cross, who calls Cobain "the last great rock star," dropped flower petals on a bench where Cobain fans have been leaving memorials in Viretta Park, near his former home. Years ago he covered the 15th anniversary of the death of another rock star -- Elvis Presley -- for The Rocket, the Seattle music newspaper he once published. One hundred thousand people attended the ceremonies.
Cobain will probably never have a Graceland, he said. But the scruffy, introverted kid from Aberdeen was an artist, not a showman. He probably wouldn't have wanted it anyway.
He was too busy making music.
"Leland has garbage bags full of letters he's received from Kurt's fans, and he has answered every one of them," Burlingame said. "He told us yesterday that nearly every one of those letters could have been written by the same person. That's because they all say the same thing -- the music of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana moved them in such a way that their lives are better because of it.
"We're 15 years on now, but I strongly doubt that will ever stop."


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Just a reminder that the 2013 version of RootsTech will take place on March 21 to March 23, 2013 in Salt Lake City, UT.
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What is persistent pulmonary hypertension (PPHN) in the newborn?
Persistent pulmonary hypertension (PPHN) happens in newborn babies. It occurs when a newborn's circulation changes back to the circulation of a fetus. When this happens, too much blood flow bypasses the baby's lungs. This is sometimes called persistent fetal circulation.
During pregnancy, babies' lungs don't exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide. Their lungs don't need as much blood. A baby's circulation sends most of the blood away from the lungs. It sends it through connections in the heart and large blood vessels.
After babies are born, this circulation changes when they start to breathe air. The change in pressure in their lungs helps close those fetal (pre-birth) connections. This redirects blood flow. Then blood is pumped to their lungs. This helps with the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
If a newborn has low oxygen levels or trouble breathing, these normal changes may not happen. This causes the baby's circulation to go back to the fetal system, when blood is directed away from the lungs. The baby's lung pressure stays high. This is PPHN.
A baby who has a difficult birth or birth asphyxia may be more likely to get PPHN. Birth asphyxia is a condition caused by too little oxygen.
About one in every 1,250 babies gets PPHN. It happens most often in full-term babies or babies born after their due dates.
PPHN is more likely in babies whose mothers took certain medicines late in pregnancy. These include non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medicines and selective serotonin receptor inhibitors.
Symptoms can occur a bit differently in each child. They can include:
The symptoms of PPHN may be similar to symptoms of other conditions. Make sure your child sees his or her healthcare provider for a diagnosis.
Your baby's healthcare provider will check his or her health and delivery history. Then he or she will give your baby an exam. Your child's healthcare provider may do the following tests to diagnose PPHN:
The goal of treatment for PPHN is to increase the oxygen to all of your baby's body systems. If your baby's body doesn't get enough oxygen, he or she may have long-term health problems.
Treatment will depend on your child's symptoms, age, and general health. It will also depend on how severe the condition is.
Your baby gets 100% oxygen through a mask or plastic hood.
This tube is put into your baby's windpipe (trachea). It helps him or her breathe.
The machine breathes for your baby.
Medicine can help your baby's muscles and reflexes relax. This makes your baby respond better to the breathing machine.
Your baby will breathe in this gas. This helps to expand the blood vessels in your baby's lungs.
This test is done if your baby doesn't respond to other care. With ECMO, blood from your baby's veins is pumped through an artificial lung. Then oxygen is added and carbon dioxide is removed. The blood is then returned back to your baby. This procedure is only done in certain neonatal intensive care units.
When blood is directed away from your baby's lungs, it's hard for his or her lungs to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide. Babies with PPHN have low blood oxygen levels even when they breathe air that's 100% oxygen. This can cause serious problems. All of your baby's organs need a regular supply of oxygen-rich blood. Your baby's organs can become damaged if they don't get enough oxygen.
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In the past week, the cautious reforms launched this summer and early fall by the Burmese government of President Thein Sein have gathered pace, and even seasoned observers of Burma -- which is hardly an easy country to analyze -- have to admit that they really do not know where the country's political path is now headed. These reforms, as I noted earlier this week, seem to be more substantial than any in decades past: Thein Sein has notably not only freed prisoners but also taken a dramatic decision to halt construction on a China-funded dam, both angering Beijing and showing average Burmese that he was responding to their concerns.
In the London Review of Books, I analyze the potential for a 'Burmese Autumn' of reform and discuss why, against all hope, some Burmese and foreign observers are starting to believe that this time is different from all of Burma's past stalled political changes.
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Rider miles this week: 91,713
Award winning author Walter Isaccson was seen on the subway heading from Sag Harbor to Bridgehampton chatting with Madonna. After Isaacson's smash bestseller Steve Jobs, is he now working on a book about the Material Girl?
The Hampton Subway Newsletter did not appear in Dan's Papers last week because last week Dan's Papers did not come out due to the paper shutting down for the New Year's weekend so all the staff could take a well-deserved vacation. If you needed to read the newsletter last week, you had to pick one up at one of the token booths or in our executive office in Hampton Bays, which is where you can find it every week, even when Dan's Papers publishes. Usually about 140 people pick up the newsletter in the subway locations, and last week, 204 people did, apparently because there was no Dan's Papers, but this was a far cry from the tens of thousands of you who read the newsletter in Dan's Papers when it appears there. Now, as we said, it is back in Dan's Papers available everywhere, so go pick one up and read it there. [expand]
(Joanna, put this paragraph in the newsletter going to Dan's Papers.)
Too bad everybody who reads Dan's Papers missed out on all the excitement on the Hampton Subway last week. Here's a recap. Two trains collided and 14 people were injured but not seriously and the two front cars of the trains were destroyed. A deranged man was arrested for firing a shotgun at the ceiling lights in one of the stations. Police came down to one of the stations to break up a fight between two men arguing over a woman. A boiler on one of the cars exploded, shutting the system down for two days.
As promised, this past New Year's Eve for the first time, the Subway system stayed open all night so revelers could "party on" in the privacy of our railroad cars. Usually, the system closes for maintenance at 2 a.m. and then reopens to accommodate the early commuters at 5 a.m., but on this night, unlike all other nights, there was no maintenance or cleanup of the trash or anything, so we say to all those early next day straphangers who had to step over the party hats and paper cups and all the people who had passed out, all we can say is you missed it.
We've kept this secret while our investigation has been ongoing, but you need to know now that the subway system has suffered for months from a thief randomly stealing the antique brass shields on the fronts of some of our railroad cars. You may never have noticed there were shields missing. They are 12 inches by 18, feature a bas relief of a subway car coming at you (with its own tiny shield on it), with the word HAMPTON above it and the word SUBWAY below it. They also feature a garland of holly above the word HAMPTON.
The shields were originally placed on all our railroad cars when the system was built in 1932. The designer and manufacturer of the shields are unknown. They weigh four pounds each and are attached to the fronts of the trains with screws but apparently the screws did not deter this thief.
We determined early on in the investigation that the thefts could not have been done in the Montauk Yards. Four German Shepherds patrol the yards 24/7 and in the past two months while the thief was operating, there was no angry barking or growling from these sentries.
Then, last Monday, there was a break in the case. A man was found, shouting out for help, on the front of one of our trains between Water Mill and Southampton. He had gotten on the front somehow and had lost his footing, but we stopped the train and rescued him, then arrested him. He was carrying a backpack containing two large screwdrivers, a crowbar and seven brass plaques, which is the exact number of plaques that have been stolen.
Tuesday morning, the man, Louis Frothingham-Goldberg, age 29, appeared at an arraignment in Southampton and pled Not Guilty to burglary, his court-appointed lawyer arguing that he was not the man on the front of the train, had found the backpack on a street corner and hoped to return it to whoever left it there, was in the business of selling screwdrivers and was planning to sue Hampton Subway for the fright caused by their starting up the train while he was pinned to the front of the lead car. The judge ordered him released on his own recognizance and all the court papers sealed, but not before we were able to obtain a copy of them.
The charge leveled against me by Bubbles LaRue, that I made a sexual advance toward her in 1987, which she declined, is not true. I've ordered her banned from using Hampton Subway.